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Mini-Book: Open Source in the Enterprise
“Open Source in the Enterprise” by Andy Oram & Zaheda Bhorat Benefits of for using, supporting, and creating open source software: Multiplying the company’s investment: “Evidence that open a project pays off financially comes from a recent report prepared under World Bank auspices (http://bit.ly/2/Favs4). Careful tracing of contributions to their project–a form of geospatial software […]
Read more "Mini-Book: Open Source in the Enterprise"First impression with Ubuntu 7.10
Yesterday, I installed Ubuntu 7.10. This time, I downloaded the desktop image instead of the server version, which I learned from my previous experience. I was a little disappointed that 7.10 didn’t resolve the kernel/acpi issue that I had on a machine that I use. It’s not a big deal, I’ll just need to continue […]
Read more "First impression with Ubuntu 7.10"First impression on package mangement on Mac OS X
Ok. I’ve only used a Mac for a couple days, they were certainly long days with many steep learning experiences. Here are some of my comments: On Mac OS X, you have several options to install an application. You can use pre-packaged binaries such as Universal Binary or a platform specific installable binary for your […]
Read more "First impression on package mangement on Mac OS X"Build script for R / HDF5 on Solaris 10 x64 32bit
Rather than following my long howto, I’ve written a script to automate much of the work. You still need to follow the manual hand edits stated in step 5 of the howto. For debug build, follow the instructions stated in this howto. Below are the environment variable file and build script file that I used […]
Read more "Build script for R / HDF5 on Solaris 10 x64 32bit"Notes on creating a debug build of R/HDF5
In general, the goal of creating a debug build is to enable debug flag (-g) and remove all optimization flags such as: -O, -O2, -O3, -s, -fomit-frame-pointer, -fstack-check, etc. If you ever run into situations where you need to build a debug build of R/HDF5, here are my notes for Solaris. For Linux or other […]
Read more "Notes on creating a debug build of R/HDF5"UTF support in R
When I tried to compile R on Solaris 10 today, I noticed that R complained that it doesn’t support UTF locales. A check in the documentation showed that UTF-8 should be supported. A closer reading revealed that the example UTF encoding key is in lower case without dash “-“. i.e. “en_GB.utf8“. The default encoding key […]
Read more "UTF support in R"Faban: Next Generation Open-Source Benchamrk Framework
Faban is the next generation benchmark building framework. It was the result of years of benchmark experiences among top performance engineers and benchmark developers. It was designed for serious performance engineers looking for tools and a run-time environment to speed up and ease his/her creation of high quality benchmark workloads. The project certainly open to […]
Read more "Faban: Next Generation Open-Source Benchamrk Framework"Update on R/HDF5 src downloads
I just found out recently that HDF5 has a new download site. Here is where you can get HDF5 and SZIP. R has a new release, click here for the current release. R HDF5 remaines the same.
Read more "Update on R/HDF5 src downloads"Notes on running NCSA HDFView
The HDFView “is a visual tool for browsing and editing NCSA HDF4 and HDF5 files.” The Linux version appears to be 32-bit and not having all the necessary 32-bit libraries caused my system unable to run it. So, I tried to run Solaris version. I had to tweak HDFVIEW_HOME and JAVAPATH variables in <HDFVIEW_HOME>/bin/hdfview.sh to […]
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